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authorThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>2012-04-17 16:45:20 +0200
committerPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>2012-04-19 16:08:09 +0200
commitc0e6b52482f244e5da6e8011d1737b0a21cef207 (patch)
treea5a89a9d177050828b3afd421d5f323e5de6dc7b /package
parent6e6b99a5714834c9330c30dd3af04009f5713204 (diff)
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pkg-*.mk: add some comments, update some existing comments
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'package')
-rw-r--r--package/pkg-autotargets.mk4
-rw-r--r--package/pkg-download.mk9
-rw-r--r--package/pkg-gentargets.mk10
-rw-r--r--package/pkg-utils.mk13
4 files changed, 27 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/package/pkg-autotargets.mk b/package/pkg-autotargets.mk
index fd118dc47..c9887c2e1 100644
--- a/package/pkg-autotargets.mk
+++ b/package/pkg-autotargets.mk
@@ -3,9 +3,7 @@
#
# This file implements an infrastructure that eases development of
# package .mk files for autotools packages. It should be used for all
-# packages that use the autotools as their build system. Non-autotools
-# packages should use the generic infrastructure in
-# package/Makefile.package.in.
+# packages that use the autotools as their build system.
#
# See the Buildroot documentation for details on the usage of this
# infrastructure
diff --git a/package/pkg-download.mk b/package/pkg-download.mk
index a565ae696..ccf819e3d 100644
--- a/package/pkg-download.mk
+++ b/package/pkg-download.mk
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+############################################################################
+#
+# This file contains the download helpers for the various package
+# infrastructures. It is used to handle downloads from HTTP servers,
+# FTP servers, Git repositories, Subversion repositories, Mercurial
+# repositories, Bazaar repositories, and SCP servers.
+#
+############################################################################
+
# Download method commands
WGET:=$(call qstrip,$(BR2_WGET)) $(QUIET)
SVN:=$(call qstrip,$(BR2_SVN))
diff --git a/package/pkg-gentargets.mk b/package/pkg-gentargets.mk
index a5356814a..1c9b45807 100644
--- a/package/pkg-gentargets.mk
+++ b/package/pkg-gentargets.mk
@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@
# Generic package infrastructure
#
# This file implements an infrastructure that eases development of
-# package .mk files. It should be used for all non-autotools based
-# packages. Autotools-based packages should use the specialized
-# autotools infrastructure in package/Makefile.autotools.in.
+# package .mk files. It should be used for packages that do not rely
+# on a well-known build system for which Buildroot has a dedicated
+# infrastructure (so far, Buildroot has special support for
+# autotools-based and CMake-based packages).
#
# See the Buildroot documentation for details on the usage of this
# infrastructure
@@ -17,9 +18,6 @@
#
# 2. Description of the commands to be executed to configure, build
# and install the package
-#
-# The autotools infrastructure specializes this generic infrastructure
-# by already implementing the configure, build and install steps.
################################################################################
################################################################################
diff --git a/package/pkg-utils.mk b/package/pkg-utils.mk
index 729f8bbe4..953dbc94c 100644
--- a/package/pkg-utils.mk
+++ b/package/pkg-utils.mk
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+############################################################################
+#
+# This file contains various utility functions used by the package
+# infrastructure, or by the packages themselves.
+#
+############################################################################
+
# UPPERCASE Macro -- transform its argument to uppercase and replace dots and
# hyphens to underscores
@@ -16,6 +23,12 @@ UPPERCASE = $(strip $(eval __tmp := $1) \
$(__tmp)))) \
$(__tmp))
+#
+# Manipulation of .config files based on the Kconfig
+# infrastructure. Used by the Busybox package, the Linux kernel
+# package, and more.
+#
+
define KCONFIG_ENABLE_OPT
$(SED) "/\\<$(1)\\>/d" $(2)
echo "$(1)=y" >> $(2)